Extra Credit Vocabulary for Unit 1:

Evidence

Primary Source

Secondary Source

Point of view

Historical Interpretation

Artifact

Bias

Chronology

Chronicle

Legacy

Empathy

Academic

Acknowledge

Impact

Sequence

Credible

Watershed

Antagonism

Appease

Ideal

Self-evident

Social class

Natural rights

Monarchy

Dictatorship

Ceaselessly

Inferior

Pursue

Specify

Mutually

Revolt

Rigid

Tolerance

Redress

Orthodox

Conversion

Revenue

Strategy

Supplement

   Content Specific Vocabulary:

Mayflower Compact

Magna Carta

English Bill of Rights

House of Burgesses

Albany Plan of Union

Great Awakening

Proprietor

Indentured Servant

Plantation

Racism

Due Process of Law

Legislature

Parliament

Confederation

Declaration of Independence

Stamp Act

Committees of Correspondence

Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

"Common Sense"

Tyranny

Boycott

Militias

Mercenaries

Guerilla warfare

Decade

dynamic

hostility

predominantly

acrimonious

affluence

crisis

radical

placate

zealot

exacerbate

objective

alleviate

elated

abnormally

motivate

vital

condemn

isolation

ingenious

impartial

unprecedented

compensation

confrontation

efficiency

emerge

adversity

injunction

mechanization

sustain

abhor

curtail

sectionalism

agitator

faction

 horizontal intergration

vertical integration

nativism

arable

pogrom

steerage

deportation

Habeus Corpus

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

Freedman's Bureau

black codes

15th Amendment

 Ku Klux Klan

Jim Crow Laws

Plessy vs Ferguson

civil rights

segregation

tenant farming

sharecropping

debt peopnage

amnesty

poll tax

literacy test

grandfather clause

lynch

Chisolm Trail

transcontinental railroad

Dawes Act

Homestead Act

Exodusters

Populist Party

Bessemer Process

social Darwinism

laissez-faire

Sherman Antitrust Act

working class

child labor

American Federation of Labor

Haymarket affair

Homestead Strike

Pullman Strike

sweatshop

tenement

labor union

socialism

Ellis Island

Americanization

Chinese Exclusion Act

Angel Island

extractive industry

temperance movement

muckraker

infrastructure

political machine

patronage

civil service

diverse

exploit

fraud

transit

disenfranchised

infamous

progressives

activist

recall

initiative

referendum

accomodation

colleague

competent

minimum

advocate

competition

pogrom

steerage

push factor

pull factor

Ellis Island

America Letters

Americanization

nativism

Chinese Exclusion Act

Angel Island

Tammany Hall

Pendleton Act

MuckRaker UPA   Muckraker UPA.docx  

Writing an investigative Newspaper Report:

As a muckraker, you uncovered alarming information about problems in American Society at the turn of the century. You will now expose what you learned to the American public by writing a newspaper report that will stir your readers to action.

Your article MUST include:

-an appropraite and appealing title

-a byline with your name and an appropriate date from the time period

-an introduction  with a brief explanation of muckraking and an overview of what you plan to expose in your article

-One paragraph describing each of the problems you uncoverd at your field site. Use vivid and shocking language. Each paragraph should have at least 3 sentences, including information from readings we did in class, your field site experience, and other information you "uncover" in your research.

-A conclusion summarizing the reasons your readers should take action to address the problems you uncovered.

-A "photograph" from your investigation with a brief caption. This can be a drawing you make or a copy of a phtotgraph from a book or the internet. It should depict something you wrote about in your article.

-Any other clever and creative touches that will make your article more realistic.

Field Site 1: A-C

Field Site 2: D-F

Field Site 3: G-I

Field Site 4: J-M

   Field Site Info.pdf  

  Muckraker Station Placards.pdf  

  Station Materials.pdf  

Helpful Project Websites:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91981589

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/immgnts/

http://teacherpages.nhcs.net/schools/hhs/billymason/Lecture%20Notes/Urbanization%20and%20Immigration%201865.htm

Progressive Notes

After the test and UPA are completed, you will begin taking notes on the Progressive Era PPT (available below).

You will take the notes in the following format:

 Industrial Age

Immigration/Urbanization

Farm Economics

Rise of Segregation

Imperialism

Spanish American War

Progressive Roots/Suffrage

Progressive Presidents

Progressive Era PPT (in Class)    Progressive.pptx  

implement

motive

restrain

utilize

lackluster

mandate

third party

arbitration

presentation

conservation

prohibition

foreign policy

diplomacy

realism

neutrality

unilateralism

non-colonization

non-interference

cede

protectorate

emphasis

formulate

justify

perspective

annex

pragmatic

mass media

armistice

resolution

protocol

deliberate

intervene

invest

liberate

bellicose

resignation

self-determination

annexation

insurrection

circumstance

insurgent

Hull House

Social Gospel

National Child Labor Commitee

National American Women Suffrage Association

Tuskeegee Institute

National Association for the Advancement

 of Colored People (NAACP)

Square Deal

New Freedom

Pure Food and Drug Act

Federal Reserve System

Monroe Doctrine

Texas Revolution

Mexican War

Imperialism

Yellow Journalism

USS Maine

Rough Riders

San Juan Hill

Anti-Imperialist League

Platt Amendment

Big Stick Diplomacy

Roosevelt Corollary

Dollar Diplomacy

Moral Diplomacy

Panama Canal

spheres of influence

Open Door Policy

national interest

The Populist Challenge (Class)  http://gln.dcccd.edu/asx/ta/TA_Captioning.htm

1. How and why could the Wizard of Oz be interpreted as a political parable or allegory? 

2. What were the major economic and political problems facing farmers in the late 19th Century?

3. Why did the Farmer's Alliance grow in the 1880s?

4. How and why did the populists reach out to the working classes of the city and across racisl lines?

5. What is the legacy of the populists?

Cause and Effect: American Imperilaism

Causes

-Industrialized nations compete for raw materials and markets

-Nations seek overseas bases to support naval and commercial interests

-Imperialists believe in a superior American culture

Effects

-The US purchases Alaska from Russia in 1867

-American planters, supported by US Marines overthrow Hawaii's Queen LiLioukalani in 1893; the US annexes Hawaii in 1898

-The US wins the Soanish-American War and axquires colonies in the Caribbean Sea and in Pacific

-In 1899, US Secretary of State John Hay establishes the Open Door Policy to protect American trading right sin China

-Panama rebels against Columbian rule; President Roosevelt acquires land for the construction of the Panama Canal

-President Wilson sneds US troops on a "punitive expedition" into Mexican to hunt and capture the rebel Pancho Vila

Nationalism

militarism

bellegerent

stalemate

propaganda

allocate

assert

react

submission

absolve

critic

opinion

infantry

combatant

howitzer

convoy

commit

comply

mechanism

prior

bolster

offensive

mobilize

pacifist

espionage

coordinate

diminish

duration

subside

prosaic

unwarranted

armament

reparation

mandate

partisanship

anticipate

fate

precise

repudiation

blueprint

restrain

America: The Story of US-Episode: Boom Questions

1. How did the US change after huge amounts of oil were discovered in Texas on 1901? DO you think this event still shapes our lives today?

2. Why did Los Angeles city leaders need to seek water sources outside the city? What do you think were the risks of bringing in water from beyond the city limits?

3. What was the Great Migration? When did it take place?

4. Why do  you think there was so much tension and violence against African Americans in urban areas in the 1910s and 1920s?

5. What are some of the reasons for and against Prohibition in the 1920s? Despite the ban on alcohol, why do you think sales of liquor continued, and what were some methods police used to stop it?

Clemency

demobilization

recession

general strike

radicalism

communism

civil liberties

anti-Semitism

decline

exclude

negative

proclaim

illusory

persist

disarmament

consolidation

spectacular

Gross National Product (GNP)

agitation

eliminate

surplus

transformation

gregarious

intergrity

credit

grassroots organuization

improvisation

alter

illuminate

induce

adulation

tedium

embrace

evolve

statistic

trend

abstain

ephemeral

 Sacco and Vanzetti

Red Scare

Palmer Raids

quota system

American Civil Liberties Union

Anti-Defamation league

Normalcy

free enterprise system

Teapot Dome Scandal

Kellog-Briand Pact

Dawes Plan

Florida Land Boom

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Charleston

Roaring Twenties

League of Women Voters

Jazz Age

Harlem Renaissance

Lost Generation

consumer culture

installment buying

spectator sports

traditionalist

modernist

flapper

Volstead Act

speakeasy

Scopes Trial

fundamentalism

bootlegging

theory of evolution

creationism

compulsory

dominate

emotional

passive

belligerent

appeasement

rationing

contradiction

contrast

factor

intensity

strident

wary

counteroffensive

genocide

comsume

devise

reinforcement

transmit

contempt

reprehensible

tribunal

sovereignty

evident

impose

acquit

malignant

Munich Pact

Nazism

neutrality Acts

blitzkrieg

Lend-Lease Act

totalitarianism

fascism

militarism

mobilization

War Production Board

Women's Army Corps

Tuskeegee Airmen

GI

internment camp

Allies

Axis powers

Halocaust

Kamikaze

atomic bomb

human rights

war crime

Proletariat

Collectivism

superpower

containment

hegemony

align

erode

retain

sphere

inevitable

prowess

coup d'etat

satillite nation

covert action

deterance

commitment

erect

isolate

legitmate

annihilation

bloc

subversion

loyalty oath

incriminate

blacklist

perjury

censure

civil defense

civic

external

manual

potentially

allegedly

momentum

Pleasantville Movie

Watch the movie and write 3 paragraphs that tell me how the movie highlights the criticism of 1950s suburbia. What happens when people defy what is considered to be proper?

Access

identical

obsolete

technique

inflation

franchise

homogeneity

parody

conformity

materialism

nonconformity

convention

obscene

cater

coherent

psychology

visual

confluence

perplex

pauperism

urban renewal

agribusiness

affluent

contend

critic

encoutner

blighted

complacency

Fair Deal

Taft-Hartley Act

baby boom

Levittown

Sunblet

planned obsolescence

blue-collar worker

white-collar worker

rock'n'roll

suburbia

beat movement

beatnik

stream of consciousness

The Long Walk Home Movie

Watch the film and answer in 3 paragraphs "How does this movie portray the Montgomery bus boycott?"

miscegenation

disenfranchise

gerrymandering

crucial

flexibility

judicial

render

degrading

hypocritical

filibuster

civil disobdience

advocate

drastic

integrate

persist

bigotry

deference

plebiscite

cite

clause

criterion

imply

pervasive

scrutiny

sexism

feminism

disability

mainstream

ageism

abstinence

subordinate

   de facto/de jure segregation

CORE

Brown v Board

Warren Court

racial zoning

color line

class-action lawsuit

Montegomery Bus Botcott

SCLC

SNCC

Freedom Rides

March on Washington

Black Power

Watts Riot

Kerner Commission

Nation of Islam

Black Panther Party

Civil Rights Act of 1968

ghetto

black nationalism

afrocentrism

affirmitive action

UFW

AIM

NOW

women's liberation

Stoenwall Riots

Thirteen Days Film

This feature film highlights the events of the 13 days of the Cubal Missile Crisis. Although the film has been criticized for taking liberties with historical events, it does represent a good study of presidential leadership. After watching the movie explain how you think that President Kennedy handled the Crisis. Could he have doen a better job? How? Your answer should be at least 3 paragraphs.

legislative agenda

regime

exile

hotline

classic

evaluate

manipulation

myth

clandestine

reprieve

extremism

environmentalism

consumerism

reapportionment

establishment clause

allege

compile

hence

constituent

invoke

generation gap

commune

pop art

counterculture

adhere

convene

mode

hedonism

mundane

New Frontier

NASA

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Test Ban treaty

Peace Corps

planned economy

developing/developed country

Great Society

War on Poverty

Economic Opportunity Act

Medicare

Medicaid

Immigration Act of 1965

Silent Spring

Warren Court

Miranda Rights

New Left

Free Speech Movement

hippie

the Establishment

Woodstock

Born on the Fourth of July Film

After a young marine returns from Vietnam wounded, he evetually begins to protest against the war that he fought in before. What are some of the battles that Kovic has to face with himself? What justifications does he have for changing his mind? Could you see yourself making the same decision? Your answer should be at least 3 paragraphs

materiel

insurgency

escalate

surveillance

aspire

contemplation

erroneous

unify

ambivalent

funereal

pacification

symbolic speech

elaborate

intimately

superior

ultimately

conventional

deceitful

moratorium

analysis

apparatus

fundamental

option

pessimistic

upsurge

Viet Minh

1st Indochina War

Geneva Accords

Viet Cong

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

domino theory

military adviser

North Vietnamese Army

Agent Orange

war of attrition

Army of the Republic of Vietnam

napalm

credibility gap

Tet Offensive

Vietnamization

My Lai Massacre

Kent State shootings

Pentagon Papers

War Powers Resolution

PTSD

POW/MIA

Vietnam Syndrome

Film Extras

Frost/Nixon, Nixon, or All The Presidents Men

Watch one or more of the following and write about how they portray Nixon's character regarding the Watergate sccandal. Was he as honest as he tried to portray himself as? Did the stress from the scandal take hold on his life in other ways, besides just losing the presidency? Your answer should be at least 3 paragraphs.

plurality

stagflation

subpeonda

bias

compel

phase

successor

debase

implicate

bicentennial

tax credit

acid rain

ethnicity

defect

molecule

reside

incentive

loathe

New Federalism

OSHA

EPA

Family Assistance Plan

energy crisis

detente

SALT

Watergate

OPEC

National Energy Act

Camp David Accords

Earth Day

Clean water Act

Safe Drinking Water Act

Three Mile Island Accidnet

National Women's Political Caucas

Rustbelt

evangelical

block grant

deregulation

deficit

national debt

clinic

comprise

incentive

revise

allocate

subsidize

nation-state

mixed economy

explicitly

internal

subsequently

verify

embroil

staunch

Reagan Revolution

Moral Majority

New Right

New Jersey vs TLO

HIV/AIDS

SDI

Reagan Doctrine

Sandinistas

Contras

PLO

Iran-Contra Affair

nuclear freeze movement

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

electorate

universal health care

legitimacy

accountability

bureaucracy

comprehend

trait

transition

impasse

plummet

passport

visa (not the credit card)

warrantless

surveillance

unlawful enemy

military commission

enlighten

provoke

valid

rigorous

virtually

compassionate conservatism

New Democrat

ADA

Contract with America

TANF

NCLB

WWW

Internet

Department of Homeland Security

USA Patriot Act

Military Commissions Act of 2006